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The audit of police officers underway in Harare Province is expected to rid the force of ghost workers and will help bring rationality to Government expenditure.
Police sources yesterday said on Thursday the team carrying out the audit was at Harare Central Police Station and yesterday, it was at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Headquarters.
The team includes more than 10 officers from the human resources department and officials from the Salary Services Bureau (SSB). They are reportedly asking for a pay slip, police identity card and national identity card when conducting the process.
“After submitting all these documents, you will then fill in a form,” a police source said yesterday.
There were reports that the Public Service Commission was carrying out the audit. An order was issued last week that officers should be present at their respective work stations, ready for the headcount.
It was also ordered that those on maternity leave, vacation leave and occasion leave or any other time off or night duty be present starting from Monday this week so that they will be counted.
The officials have so far conducted the process at Mbare Police Station, Southerton Police Station, Borrowdale Police Station and Highlands Police Station.
Last month, Cabinet approved the civil service audit, heralding a new chapter in the public sector through the implementation of measures such as reduction of student teachers and trainees’ allowances, termination of any salaries still paid for teachers at trust and private schools and resuscitation of pension contributions by civil servants.
Some of the changes, meant to reduce the Government wage bill and steer economic growth, were with immediate effect.
All vacant posts have been abolished, bus fare for civil servants has been re-introduced, under-used staff is being redeployed, funding of bridging courses has been scrapped, while all members who were abusing various types of leave, tampering with pay sheets and attendance registers have been charged.
Reports indicated that the audit would be done in other sectors of the civil service like the Judicial Service Commission, Defence Forces Service Commission, Police Service Commission, Prisons and Correctional Service Commission and the Health Services Board.
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